California-based alternative healer faces manslaughter charge over woman’s death at a UK slapping therapy workshop

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Hongchi Xiao promotes paida lajin therapy, in which patients are slapped or slap themselves repeatedly, ostensibly to release toxins from the body. Patients often end up with bruises or bleeding.

Originally published at The Associated Press